ISLAM

172 ISLAM VERSUS CHRISTIANITY
"It brings us, I think, face to face with an evil
which is corrupting- the whole body of civilisation
like a cancer an arrest of moral growth, a refusal
of vital tissues to follow the law of their being, a
stoppage in the development of the human soul."*
The accounts which we have given above about
the ideals of marriage and consequently of the prevalence
of divorce in Christian society are also
corroborated by The Gltss of Fashion. In page 128,
the author savs :
The sentimental correspondence produced in the
divorce court of our own davs seem to me a
document of the gravest sociological importance.
No one cnn rend the tragic or stupid effusions
of respondents and co-respondents without an
immense wonder at the ignorance of the human
race and R profound compassion for its victims.
Those letters, if we read them with the sympathy
they deserve, remembering, inspite of their
construction and grammar, their crudeness and
naiveti, their vulgarity and slang, that they are
written by actual men and women anxious for
happiness and capable of suffering, men and
women too, whose right thinking is of importance
to the rest of us, those letters, I think,
witness to a colossal blunder on the part of
society."
He further explains :
"After all, the young man of fashion and the
powdered girl from the chorus are only children.